Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1997 Page: 1 of 64
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Lawsuit alleges male-to-male sex harassment
September 5, 1 99V
Volume XIV
Number 1 9
Federal suit filed on behalf of gay Colorado man by same team that fought Amendment II
By Deborah Mendez
Associated Press
DENVER — The group that assem-
bled the legal team that successfully
fought the anti-gay rights Amendment
2 has turned its attention to an alleged
case of sexual harassment between men
in the workplace.
In a lawsuit filed in U.Sr District
Court in Denver, a scenery painter
alleges he was fired from his job_after
he complained to the company owner
that his male supervisor had sexually
harassed him.
The lawsuit, filed last Wednesday, is
one of a handful that have been filed
nationwide and is a first for Denver
federal court, Colorado Legal
Initiatives Project attorney Julie C.
Tolleson said.
"It's the first I know of. There's no
controlling precedent in the entire 10th
Circuit," said Tolleson, who is repre-
senting the painter, Michael D.
Sheridan of Denver.
"That's one of the reasons the issue is
of interest to us. We think it's an issue
the courts need to deal with," she said.
CLIP was founded before 1992, the
year Colorado voters approved the
Amendment 2, which banned laws pro-
tecting gays and lesbians from discrim-
ination. The amendment was struck
down by the U.S. Supreme Court in
May 1996.
The group put together the legal
team that handled the challenge to the
amendment. Now, said Tolleson, the
group takes on litigation "on civil rights
issues of importance to the gay and les-
bian community."
Sheridan, who is openly gay, worked
for-Salutations Ink, a Denver-based
Srirfthat specializes in creating back-
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Dallasites pay respects to Princess Di
James Pena (I.) and Carlos Gonzales pay their respects lot to lose them,” Pena said, adding that he appreciat-
to Princess Diana at a makeshift shrine outside the ed Diana’s openness to gays, lesbians and people with
British Consulate in Oak Lawn on Tuesday morning. AIDS. Dallas gays reacted with sadness to Diana’s
“When you find somebody everybody loves, it hurts a death after a Paris auto accident. Story on Page 6.
PROFILE:
Gay television
actor Mitchell
Anderson talks
about his role
on Party of Five
and his hopes
for a future
which includes
the big screen.
TRAVEL:
San Diego
offers the gay
traveler a per-
fect climate,
wonderful
parks and
museums and
a thriving gay
scene.
SCREEN:
Last weekend's
Telluride Film
Festival offered
some interest-
ing new gay-
themed films
among its 30 or
so surprise
selections.
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